You may remember the story of some folks who built a scale model, remote controlled, flyable X-Wing Fighter. Well, they went to launch it this weekend and let’s just say, the flight was more reminiscent of what happened to Red Leader at the Battle of Yarvin, than Luke Skywalker’s bomb run that day.*

Still, pretty damn awesome.

*No, I am not that much of a Star Wars geek, I had to do some research to see who died at the end of the original movie.

Hat Tip (who else) The Jawa Report

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You may remember the story of some folks who built a scale model, remote controlled, flyable X-Wing Fighter. Well, they went to launch it this weekend and letÂ’s just say, the flight was more reminiscent of what happened to Red Leader at the Battle of Yarvin, than Luke SkywalkerÂ’s bomb run that day.*

Still, pretty damn awesome.

*No, I am not that much of a Star Wars geek, I had to do some research to see who died at the end of the original movie.

Hat Tip (who else) The Jawa Report

Posted by: DrewM at 05:32 PM | Comments (26)
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I am sure the media, Democratic presidential candidates and Andrew Sullivan (one of the last two true conservatives left in America) will be all over this outrageous violation of the separation of Church and State.

Except the won’t. Why? Because the Christianist in question is none other than the Obamessiah himself.

Obama told the congregation at Redemption World Outreach Center in Greenville Church, South Carolina, "I can be an instrument of God they same way all of you are.”

An instrument of God as President? Of the United States? Oh my.

Funny, for all the media reports of Bush being a daffy Christian who talks to God, I don’t remember seeing him actually preaching from the pulpit of a church.

No word yet on if the Obamessiah has come out against the cross as an outdated symbol of Christianity.

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I am sure the media, Democratic presidential candidates and Andrew Sullivan (one of the last two true conservatives left in America) will be all over this outrageous violation of the separation of Church and State.

Except the wonÂ’t. Why? Because the Christianist in question is none other than the Obamessiah himself.

Obama told the congregation at Redemption World Outreach Center in Greenville Church, South Carolina, "I can be an instrument of God they same way all of you are.”

An instrument of God as President? Of the United States? Oh my.

Funny, for all the media reports of Bush being a daffy Christian who talks to God, I donÂ’t remember seeing him actually preaching from the pulpit of a church.

No word yet on if the Obamessiah has come out against the cross as an outdated symbol of Christianity.

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On todayÂ’s Howard Kurtz show on CNN, Robin Wright of the Washington Post and Barbara Starr of CNN defended the MSMÂ’s decision to downplay the recent decrease in US and civilian deaths in Iraq. After Kurtz points how most media outlets (ABC World News Tonight and Lou Dobbs being the exceptions) buried the news he asks both reporters if that news should have gotten more attention.

ROBIN WRIGHT, THE WASHINGTON POST: Not necessarily. The fact is we're at the beginning of a trend -- and it's not even sure that it is a trend yet. There is also an enormous dispute over how to count the numbers. There are different kinds of deaths in Iraq.

There are combat deaths. There are sectarian deaths. And there are the deaths of criminal -- from criminal acts. There are also a lot of numbers that the U.S. frankly is not counting. For example, in southern Iraq, there is Shiite upon Shiite violence, which is not sectarian in the Shiite versus Sunni. And the U.S. also doesn't have much of a capability in the south.”

KURTZ: Barbara Starr, CNN did mostly quick reads by anchors of these numbers. There was a taped report on "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT." Do you think this story deserved more attention? We don't know whether it is a trend or not but those are intriguing numbers.

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: But that's the problem, we don't know whether it is a trend about specifically the decline in the number of U.S. troops being killed in Iraq. This is not enduring progress. This is a very positive step on that potential road to progress.

KURTZ: But let's say that the figures had shown that casualties were going up for U.S. soldiers and going up for Iraqi civilians. I think that would have made some front pages.

STARR: Oh, I think inevitably it would have. I mean, that's certainly -- that, by any definition, is news. Look, nobody more than a Pentagon correspondent would like to stop reporting the number of deaths, interviewing grieving families, talking to soldiers who have lost their arms and their legs in the war. But, is this really enduring progress?

So an increase in US and Iraqi casualties is by any definition news but a decreasing casualty rate has to be part of a trend before it gets prominent coverage.
I am sorry when did the definition of news come with the requirement that it be part of a demonstrable ‘trend’? Seems Larry Craig made a lot of ‘news’ but I am unaware of a ‘trend’ of US Senators from Idaho trolling for guys in the men’s room.

So of all the things the media covers it seems that good news from Iraq is subjected to a trend analysis. Why, one might get the idea that the media doesnÂ’t want the American people to know about it.

Just remember they are the Deciders.

(Hot Air has the video)

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If you can read this, you've come to the right place.

If not, then... not.

...

Okay, it saved the post, updated the HTML, and didn't explode. So pretty much working, and I just have to wait on the DNS propagation.

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The Snakes just shut down the sillies moments ago. The Schlubs expired a couple of hours ago.

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This is an interesting read explaining the physics of the English long bow and the arrows it shot.

...When these calculations were done, the answers were almost unbelievable. They suggested that the force needed to draw a medieval longbow could have been in the range 110 to 180 pounds (500 to 800 Newtons). Although these figures are astonishing, they have been confirmed by calculations based on the bows found in the wreck of Henry VIII's ship Mary Rose, which sank in 1545. It seems likely that in 1415, when archery was at its peak in England as a technique of warfare, bows would have been no less powerful than in 1545, when archery was already beginning to lose ground to firearms...

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Walrus (yes, singular AND plural!) decide to cope with climate adjustments, and follow food.

It's an amazing story really. We'd have to step in and do something to help, except the walrus already took care of themselves.

Experts express concerns, emit sound bites.

Walrus ignore, and eat their clams.

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Had to get a screengrab of this before it gets corrected:

One has to wonder what Oklahoma was doing while the Longhorns were, um, beating each other.

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